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Перевод: hibernation

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зимняя спячка; зимний сон; бездействие
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Тезаурус:

1. The more so at Augusta, the arrival of which each year seems to signal the happy end of winter hibernation.
2. Hedgehogs reach breeding condition during late March and early April, shortly after rising temperatures and hormonal changes provide the cues for wakening from their winter hibernation.
3. Of these, some, including many rodents, survive the winter by hibernation, while the musk ox, like many hoofed animals in harsh climates, loses much of its appetite when there is no food to be had, and survives largely by endurance, living off its body reserves.
4. For some of us, the homecoming of the bare-faced crows marks, more than anything else, the progress of the year: more than the sparrow's egg that fell from a nest in the guttering of a barn's roof; or, for that matter, the arrival of the hive bees to jostle around the gold gorse flowers; more than the toad crawling to the pond in which he was spawned; or the squeak of a hungry pipistrelle bat venturing out of hibernation on a warm, wet evening.
5. Late summer and early autumn are important times for hedgehogs to build up their body weight prior to hibernation.
6. I have caught two-tone bream in winter, and not during a mild spell when hibernation could have been interrupted.
7. For the spring, the pink/purple aubretia flowers are popular among butterflies emerging from hibernation, as are yellow wallflowers.
8. They not only brighten up a faded border, but provide essential nectar and pollen for beneficial insects going into hibernation.
9. - Your summer clothes go into hibernation in cupboards, wardrobes, dry cleaners', cloakrooms, hat-stands, boots of cars, other people's houses, restaurant vestibules, backs of chairs in disused rooms and many other places from which they will eventually creep, crumpled and dishevelled, in six months' time.
10. The spring, he says, is a particularly perilous time in adder-land: as they emerge from hibernation, adders are too groggy to slip away from potential threats but their fangs are filled with several months' worth of venom.
11. If you summon up the courage to investigate, you might find not alien creatures but a friendly hedgehog or two, emerging from hibernation and foraging for food among the shrubs in your borders.
12. A plentiful supply of food is particularly important for hedgehogs after hibernation and prior to breeding.
13. Hibernation lasts for between four and five months, from October until March or a little later in the north of Britain.